The Wells/Hajjar Central America Solidarity Collection includes the organizational, administrative and working papers for several grass-roots political groups founded by Carol Wells and Ted Hajjar in the late seventies and early eighties. The groups founded and operated by both Wells and Hajjar originally sought to oppose United States (US) interventionist policies in Nicaragua, which remained its primary focus, but was later expanded into other Central American countries.

The two primary organizations comprised herein are the Nicaraguan Task Force (NTF), along with several smaller subsidiaries, and Solidarity: A Social Feminist Network (SOLIDARITY). The NTF is the predominate organization in the collection and the source of the majority of records contained in Series 1. These include but are not limited to bank statements, purchasing and inventory invoices and receipts, telephone and utility statements, a book of folkloric guitar sheet music, and several handwritten meeting notes and planning agendas by Carol Wells. There are also several governmental agency reports, news clippings, magazine articles and copies of speeches—not produced by NTF—but concerning the socio-political and economic conditions and regimes in Central America during the era, as well as information on the US/Reagan Administration’s policies of intervention in this region.

The NTF’s sub-committees represented here include the US Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), the Frente Democractico Revolucionario (FDR), the Frente Marti para la Liberacion National (FMLN), and the New American Movement (NAM). The records herein representing these sub-committees include meeting agendas, minutes, resolutions, steering and planning goals, expansion projects, fundraising, and countless newsletters. The newsletters are both the sub-committees’ own newsletters as well as ones received from a myriad of organizations serving similar Central American grass-roots movements.

SOLIDARITY is a sister organization to NTF but with its central foci on the women’s socialists movements of these same time periods. SOLIDARITY was never specifically designated to a particular Central American country and strove to increase awareness and bi-partisanship network with other socialist movements. The SOLIDARITY records contained in this collection include organizational and structural planning, meeting agendas and minutes, brochures, fundraising flyers, and a large quantity of SOLIDARITY’s own newsletters, resolutions and annual conference reports.

Materials are arranged alphabetically by folder title and date order, whenever available. Undated materials are placed at the rear of the folder.